Strategic succession planning can significantly improve an organization’s near- and long-term business results.  It provides better alignment between long-term strategic planning, year-to-year organizational planning, and ongoing talent planning.

With succession planning, a company can be assured of having the right people capable of doing the right tasks at the right time—all the time!  There is much stronger morale and loyalty, and newer talent can be coached to lead later efforts.  This generates greater productivity and increased talent retention.  It also lowers costs for talent acquisition, development, and retention.

Unfortunately, most commercially available succession-planning technologies are cumbersome, nonspecific, and not particularly reliable.  Their assessments focus on laundry lists of competencies that have not been corroborated against actual demonstrated effectiveness in a role.  And none of these processes have a validated means for assessing an employee’s current potential—and future potential—to work at various levels in an organization.

To fill this gap, The Levinson Institute's consulting in succession planning now includes Sonario^®, a revolutionary, integrated software system that helps executives and managers to more effectively lead their organizations.

Sonario^® is unique.  It is based on over 50 years of scientific research about the nature of role complexity and human potential.  In fact, the U.S. Army Research Institute has validated the Strategic Organization methodology that Sonario^® employs for assessing employees’ current potential and future potential.

Sonario^® ensures accurate, internally consistent appraisal of employee potential, as well as employee demonstrated effectiveness. Sonario^® also guides managers through a reliable capability gap analysis in order to give employees constructive feedback and create ambitious development plans.  Of equal importance, the Sonario^® methodology for assisting managers in assessing both the innate potential and demonstrated effectiveness of their employees dramatically reduces the emergence of bias and discrimination.

Over the past 20 years, Levinson Institute consulting in succession planning and talent-pool development has helped scores of business organizations and federal government agencies to improve their productivity, profitability, and ability to accountably deliver strategy.  The Levinson Institute, widely acclaimed for leadership development, is now one of the foremost authorities in developing world-class leadership systems in companies around the world.

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